Monday 27 October 2014

Holly and Lights

Hi everyone, for this month's Letraset make I have gone all festive with an early Christmas card. 

I started by roughly sketching out some holly leaf shapes, this is a really easy shape to draw but you could cut one from an old card to draw around, or you could stamp your leaves. I used Letraset fineliners in both 0.3 and 0.5mm to outline the leaves. I also added in 3 tear drop fairy lights. 



I pulled out several greens and blue-greens in my Letraset Promarkers. 


Next I started to colour each holly leaf. Do each half a different shade to add interest, and don't forget the centre vein . 


Here you can see all the leaves done in various shades. Each is done with a darker shade next to the outside edge with a lighter shade blended over the darker one. The red berries are each done with two shades aswell.



Now for a little shimmer, colour the fairy lights using Letraset Metallic markers. 


To create a fineliner to colour the string, I added a Letraset fine nib to a brown Promarker, this instantly makes it a fineliner.. 



Next I scribbled on a craft mat with a green metallic marker, I spritzed with water and picked up the ink on a brush. I used this to fill in the background. 


I finished the background by running a black metallic marker around the edges. 


Now to add the details, I went back to my 0.3mm black fineliners and added patterns to all the leaves. 


I mounted the coloured piece to a white card blank , and added a stamped greeting. 



As a final touch i used a grey Promarker to lightly outline everything, this just makes them stand out a little from the green background. 


I have a pack of Metallic markers to give away.. 


To enter please do TWO things for me. Go to my post on the letraset blog and leave a comment AND add your name to the linky below. 






11 comments:

  1. Fantastic card Darcy, great colours and loving the doodling :-) xxx

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  2. Brilliant, love the doodling on the leaves. x

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  3. Loving the zentangle on the holly leaves.

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  4. Have commented over on the Letraset blog but will repeat myself here - this is a fresh and modern design and I love that as soon as the background was added, those lights just popped out immediately. Very inspirational!

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  5. Darcy, I love the idea to use the marker with a brush to fill the background in. I love the vibrancy of the colors on your card.

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  6. You crack me up lol...just thinking how much work you put into these images and then you say "know to add some detail" :D XXX

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  7. Very cool. Love the doodles they really make a big difference to the composition. Love those metallics. Hugz

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  8. I think it is a wonderful card. I love how you made the image stand out and all the doodles! (which, I am terrible at and yours look so cool)

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  9. Your art is always so inspirational and I want to try those markers!

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